Monday, July 20, 2026

Communism Is On The March Again!

And I Am A Gargantuan Electric Comm-u-niss Golem!

Big thanks to Trump, Rubio, et al., for reviving the International Communist Menace.
These stupid jerks are trying to scare the chumps about Cuba. Yes, Cuba, giant, powerful Commie island to the south, & its "influence" & "infiltration".
Here we come, capitalist pigs!

Also on the subject, from The Rude Pundit.
Rubio is promising that the administration is going to be naming more groups as "terrorist organizations" and going after their funding, which they claim comes from foreign governments. The ideological criteria is broad: "This is what radical leftism is.  It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time.  They can call themselves anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist or communist or anarchist or Marxist." Except it's not illegal to believe any of those things. You can be a communist in the United States. It's allowed. Or it used to be.

And the net is going to get wider and wider and "communist" is going to mean "wants health care for everyone," and this effort is going to work hand-in-hand with the voter suppression efforts, one being used as an excuse for the enforcement of the other. Rubio teed it all up: the coming pretext to destroy everyone on the left.

Sunday, July 19, 2026

Top Ten All-American Hellhole States

These are America’s 10 worst states to live in for 2026

States of the former Confederacy, plus Oklahoma, Utah (not a state then) & Indiana; somewhat surprising until I remembered it was a Klan hotspot in the 1920s.
The Ku Klux Klan held immense political and social power in Indiana during the 1920s, with an estimated 300,000 members—representing roughly a third of the state's native-born white male population.
Guessing all these hellholes have Republicans as Goobernators & legislatures dominated by idiotic right-wingers.

And the biggest loser is:

America’s Worst Place to Live in 2026: Tennessee

And I'd heard so much about Nashville being a "hot", burgeoning cultural center, like Branson, MO but w/ less Jesus. Great for crackers, sure.
Tennessee Republicans, led by Gov. Bill Lee, make no apologies for a rash of state laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community, including a so-called “bathroom law” requiring transgender people to use the facilities designated for their sex at birth. The state also explicitly bars localities from adopting their own antidiscrimination ordinances. To underscore the point, Lee signed a resolution earlier this year designating June “Nuclear Family Month.”

“The nuclear family, consisting of one husband, one wife, and any biological, adopted, or fostered children, is God’s design for familial structure and has been the bedrock of society since the creation of the world,” the resolution states.

Its sponsors deliberately timed the observance to coincide with the month when Tennessee’s more than 300,000 LGBTQ+ people celebrate Pride.

Inclusiveness isn’t the only area where the Volunteer State falls short. Tennessee also has one of the highest violent crime rates in the nation, according to FBI statistics. And it has the third-highest rate of drug deaths, according to the United Health Foundation.

Who'd a thunk CNBC would be full of low-T lib sissies who are so concerned about the pervs?

Sunday Evening I Got Nothing
Musical Filler

Lively your sucker asses up w/ some 40-50 yr.-old classics, chumps.
They don't make 'em like that anymore, & why should they? It's all been done.

Saturday, July 18, 2026

House Of Socialist Horrors
Frightens Usual Suspects

Abolish All Institutions!!

All violent language & name-calling: "Wrecks". "Brutal". "Moron". That certainly refutes her point, other than it being true.

Un-democratic institutions like the Senate & Supreme Court that are "key" to keeping Whitey, the aristocrats & other scum in power should absolutely be abolished, & the sooner the better. That puts their undies in the proverbial twist, & it's why anything that keeps Democrats out of office will be legitimate in their eyes. Are you scared yet?

Inclement Weather Report

They're now warming up in Cleveland. Doubleheader tomorrow!

Eff You & The Yacht You Sailed In On!!

Protesters in Venice have clashed with police over the presence of a luxury yacht owned by U.S. ambassador Tilman Fertitta. They see it as a symbol of American wealth and influence. Fertitta's yacht is part of a coastal diplomacy tour marking the 250th anniversary of American independence. (AP video shot by: Niccolo Lupone)
How 'bout we keep the flag-waving at home?

"Low-T": EAIAC

Handsome Dick Manitoba is thrice the man Pete Hegseth wishes he were.
Sky Dancing has more on testosterone obsession, about half-way down the page. These people are ignernt & crazy.
Some physicians and researchers questioned the move and said some of Hegseth’s statements on testosterone Wednesday were not backed by research. Testosterone levels vary naturally over time, and it is unusual to screen patients for low testosterone unless there are symptoms, they said.

“This is non-evidence-based and could cause harm,” said Adriane Fugh-Berman, a professor in the department of pharmacology and physiology at Georgetown University.

Pin-dicked closet cases, every one.
The framing fits neatly within a growing trend of hormonal obsession on the right. Over the past several years, in corners of the internet, media, and politics devoted to an exacting vision of masculine supremacy, testosterone has become a substance of mythical importance. Calling a political opponent or message-board adversary “low-T” is the new “soy boy,” “beta,” or “gay.” Right-wing influencers are touting dubious pills that promise to increase testosterone production for more energy, bigger muscles, and better boners. The Trump administration is bragging that the president has the highest T level Dr. Oz has ever seen in a man over 70.

All this is befitting of a political movement that wants to eliminate gender-affirming medical care and gets its health advice from the supplement ads on Tucker Carlson’s podcast. In the eyes of Hegseth and his peers, testosterone isn’t just a sex hormone present in most human beings or a potential gauge of underlying health issues. It’s a magic manly potion, an indisputable indicator of sexual power, a tool for turning matcha-swilling weaklings into musclebound superheroes incapable of expressing any emotion but rage.

Funny, I doubt if there's any testeosterone left in my wretched body, but I can assure you I am a blue-hot ball of screaming rage!

More Music To Lay Track By,
More Often

The wailing continues. As does the pounding of nails. I like to imagine I'm beating a Republican w/ a hammer each time I drive a nail home. Relieves the boredom.

Telling The Truth

From The Hill, via Attention To The Unseen. This may raise a stink among certain elements. The truth hurts.

House Democrat: Hegseth testosterone screenings indicative of ‘homoeroticism’

The New England Democrat added that the Defense chief is the “embodiment” of the style of hypermasculine, homoerotic art drawn by Finnish artist Touko Valio Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland.

“So I feel like they must be looking at that [Tom of Finland’s art] as like their example for what men look like,” Balint said.

No, really? Could explain why none of them like girls. One might even wonder if this were a peculiar & pathetic means of trying to get women out of the military.
The actual testosterone story, as opposed to what these simpletons believe it to be. Essentially, a pointless exercise for most.

Friday, July 17, 2026

Friday Freak Out

Very Excited

Not sure I can stand it! Assembled something electric that works as intended! Only took about an hr. & a half to make the 10 connections. The switch machine's been sitting around for yrs. because the power pack I had didn't have AC terminals for accessories.
Even better, it works when attached to the switch.
Will it work when it's back in the track? No reason to think it won't, but we'll have to wait until it's painted to be sure.

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Here Come The Nazis. Again.

Rubio is convinced he's Cap't. America defying the Communist hordes.
More like Bucky if you ask me.
Aram Roston / The Guardian:
‘Enemies of civilization’: top Trump officials launch sweeping attack on left
Shannon K. Kingston / ABC News:   Rubio urges international counterterrorism crackdown on the far-left
Saving "civilization". W/ violence, of course.
Can't fight the truth, so they accuse "The Left" of the violence they & their flunkies love & endorse. Remember 6 January, 2021?
Hey, "Defenders of Civilization", it's not 1914 anymore.

Tee Vee Eye On The Nation

Remember, they only release footage of hits. Who knows how many millions of your taxes has been wasted on misses?What? No 'plane dumping a load of shit all over American beach-goers? Sissy-boys must be low on testosterone.Stew in your own juices, chumps.

Quote Of The Day

How Long, How Long?

Too Hot To Handle

"You made your bed now go lie in it, you made your bed now go die in it."

And the fake news goes w/ "Blame Canada!"
Ariel Rabinovitch / Global News:
‘Sovereignty comes with responsibility:’ U.S. lawmakers to Canada on wildfires
Emily Mae / CBS News:   Climate extremes fuel explosive wildfires in Canada and the U.S., experts say
No nation is innocent, except of course these United Snakes, where there hasn't been a wildfire or carbon emission since the early '50s, right? Burn in hell, lying idiot hypocrites.

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Fake News Round-Up

These people certainly know from smearing & disgusting summaries.
All in the eye of the beholder. Some beholders might need their vision corrected w/ a smack across the face. W/ a 2x4.

Not saying there aren't good parts.

"That's A Meet & A Half, Eh?"

Literal Hot Rails As The Continents Burn

Comment of the day:
Wow! Looks like that's where Lindsey got off.
And two complaints about the beeping.

Hump Day Music

Music for humping?
Offended yet? Good. You should be. That's the whole damn idea.

Up Just Past The Crack Of Noon ...

... W/ Killing On My Conscience

Not that I'd feel bad if I had killed anyone (And you can't prove nuthin'!); no, it's that there are millions upon millions of subhuman morons who are destroying the world & the planet & deserve death a priori, but I've not killed one of them yet! It's really nagging at me.

Don't get your panties in a twist, moribund losers! I am only the executioner, carrying out the sentence Nature has so deservedly given each & every one of you walking corpses. There. Is that enough for one of you squealing rat informants to call the fucking police again? Far as I'm concerned, you're all fucking squealers until proven otherwise.

P.S.: T. Tex Edwards was the previous occupant of the house I lived in Silver Lake through the mid-1980s & early '90s, before he moved back to Texas. And did anyone call the fucking pigs to have the authors of the song committed? No. Different fucking story w/ me. Open season on Bouffant if he dares to express himself or shares his "feelings". Again, hypocrisy is the greatest sin of all!

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

"For Jah Never Made No King
To Rule Mankind"

"Ruler" my ass! Sen. Scott should get his stupid, ignorant, mentally ill head out of his ass & "realize" the cliché is "leader" of the free world.
And fat deranged Trump is neither. "Jah never appointed no president." To arms,citizens! Time for a Yankee Bastille Day! No kings to rule mankind!!
[Digby's Blog.]

Orgy Of Consumption Complete*

The TrainWorld tat was there when I woke up, delivered at 1049.
Home Despot divided five items into three deliveries, first sand & the box for fiddly bits (just after 1100) then the alligator clips,
finally, at 1352, the glue & flashlight.
A real damn flashlight (A bright LED that uses three AAAs; almost blinded myself pushing the TRY ME button.) for when I block the light when working, or the dark recesses below.
*For today. Still need ...

"Goofy-Ass Uniforms"

It acknowledges the day Parisians stormed the Bastille fortress and prison in 1789, helping spark the French Revolution that overthrew the monarchy. Ukrainian fighter pilots and troops took pride of place the celebrations Tuesday showcasing support for Ukraine and symbolically flexing European military muscle.
Take that, puto Putin! As noted in the item directly below.

Off With Their Heads!!

The Bloody Standard is Raised!

New version cut w/ the Prague Symphonic Ensemble. Were there no French aggregations available?C'mon, Yanks! How much longer can you wait?

Déjà Le Quatorze Juillet?

I have never seen so many goofy-ass uniforms. Check the leaders & spouses too. Everyone nasty, I'm sure, save Zelenskyy, who's also the only one I recognize other than Macron.

Monday, July 13, 2026

Something To Think About

Air Force Veteran Lindsey Graham’s Death Shows Double Standard Between Military, Congress

The military tracks the health of those guarding its weapons. The Senate asks the public to trust what it cannot see.

[Ooops! Here's the link. Pardon me.] Oddly unmentioned is the Executive Branch office-holder who has the nuclear codes, the President. Why don't we run the country like a business, w/ mandatory retirement at 65?

How Do They Do It?

Originally expected Friday the 17th; now, tomorrow!
How does it get to Avondale from Bethpage (just northeast of Levittown) in 42 hrs. & one min.? Flown to PHX, then to Avondale for sorting, & is then trucked to Los Angeles? Hell of a lead-foot to get it to L.A. in four hrs. & 47 mins. Maybe it's flown from PHX to LAX & takes that long to be scanned. As if anything makes any sense anymore.

Anyway, Tues. beats Fri. Shameless plug for TrainWorld; good prices, large selection, & shipping one's stuff by USPS beats the glibertarian weasels at FedEx & UPS by days! My patience grows thinner as I mature. 

In other interactions w/ the outside world, fuck alla you moronic chumps. My patience grows razor-thin dealing w/ lying cheats, scumbags & rat bastards.

And to hell w/ the law that won't allow Home Despot to deliver spray paint. (Although Rust-oleum shipped me spray cans directly from Illinois that I ordered from Home Despot.) Now I have to drag my recently scrawny ass to the actual store & wait for an orange-aproned wage-slave to unlock the heavy-duty orange cage it's kept in.

What a fascinating existence. And why do I share this?
Rocking live version.

More Meat Monday

Indeed, Nothing But Meat

Sunday, July 12, 2026

Raking Nowhere Man Graham
Over The Coals

Steve Schmidt does a fine job.
Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention.

Let it be known for all time that he knew exactly what Donald Trump was from the very beginning, and chose him over his country:

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed ... and we will deserve it.

I believe Donald Trump would be an absolute, utter disaster for the Republican Party, destroy conservatism as we know it.

We would get wiped out and it would take generations to overcome a Trump candidacy.

Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee of the Republican party. If he is, that’s the end of the Republican Party.

Trump is an interloper and a demagogue of the greatest proportion.

When Donald Trump attacked America, and tried to burn down the republic built by Washington, saved by Lincoln and redeemed by King, he was aided by Lindsey Graham who supported the lies, dismissed the insanity and sought personal gain from it all.

Lindsey Graham was a pathetic man, a true cynic and a faithless servant of the Constitution.

He was a simple man to understand and a tragic one. He lacked a moral core and any sense of right and wrong. The great empty spaces of his life were filled with an insatiable need for “relevance.” He found it as a cast member in the most malignant reality show ever made.

Let there be no confusion about what Lindsey Graham was. There was no complexity to the man, nor much in the way to plumb and analyze about his journey to the bottom of the Trump sewer.

Josh Marshall makes the same follower, not leader observation. Probably won't hear much about what an effing sheep he was in the corporate press. See? [Don't click. Started autoplaying fake news.]

Media ghouls, commentators across political aisle mock Lindsey Graham’s death with ‘good riddance’ posts

Graham, who served South Carolina in the Senate since 2003, died Saturday at 71 after a brief illness

Good riddance indeed to the two-faced twit. Apparently he wasn't under much medical care, or was a victim of malpractice. At least he died happily, knowing that cowardly air attacks ("The War") on Iran continue on the telebision.

M. Bouffant, "Media Ghoul". I like it.

Dropping Like Flies

Attempted 2016 presidential candidate. Dropped out before the primaries began.
New York Times:
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, Dies at 71  —  Mr. Graham died of a “brief and sudden” illness on Saturday evening, his office said.  He served in the Senate for more than two decades.Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham, longtime South Carolina senator, dies at 71  —  Graham, first elected to the House in 1994 and the Senate in 2002, was running for reelection this year.  He died of a “brief and sudden illness,” his office said.  —  Lindsey Graham, a longtime Republican senator from South Carolina …
Bloomberg:   US Senator Lindsey Graham Dies at 71 After Sudden Illness
Outlived another wretched bastard. How's that other sick cracker doing?

Saturday, July 11, 2026

Music For Painting Plastic

Has other uses as well.
Not only the version, but the original!
Again, the original. You get it all here! I prefer this arrangement anyway.
The 20-odd ft. of butcher paper used for packing makes a good surface for painting.

It Arrived!

Delivered at 1025, US$78.95, plus $32.94 S&H & $10.90 tax worth of plastic & nickel/steel from The People's Republic of China. Now I will cut it open & show you every item, one at a time. NOT!! Sweet Blood of Jesus, what is duller than an "unboxing" video? This is all track, nothing interesting, & now I have to paint all 24+ linear feet of rails & ties before I can try my luck laying it.
Want a mind-numbing video of that?

I am disappointed that the Postal Service didn't put it on a 'plane but trucked it across the country. Expecting some interesting plastic & electronics Fri., which left N.Y.C. this a.m.; maybe the P.S. will send that on a 'plane. I can at least hope for Thurs. delivery, air mail or not.

Jeeze, I'm like a consumer. When did that happen?

Friday, July 10, 2026

Holding Pattern

Definitely have to wait for the flex track."Expected Delivery" is Monday, but the pkg. left PHX suburb Avondale at 0822 today, so my optimistic heart hopes it's already in town & will be at the Nat "King" Cole station in time to be delivered tomorrow. If not, an exciting wknd. of replacing plastic wheelsets & couplers w/ metal ones & adjusting coupler heights.
Auto-focus my ass, SONY.

Even the Catalina is in a holding pattern atop the desk.Minutes later: My stuff arrived at the L.A. Reg. Dist. Ctr. at 1916, so my optimism may not be wrong. Sad when all one's optimism is because one's somewhat wiser than a Postal Service robot.

Friday F.O. & D.

A finger, or even two, are not enough to express my sheer disgust at this wk.'s pointless bullshit.

Friday Freak Out

Supposedly many big names played in Eckstine's band before they became big names.

Thursday, July 9, 2026

Inanity & Idiocy Become Exponential

Stupidest thing ever? Sounds familiar.Do these buffoons live in an '80s &'90s cartoon universe? Shouldn't they be reading their "Good Book" (All other books are bad, dontcha know!?!) rather than watching telebision? 

Not that I think carving "CHAS." into the moon would be a bad idea, but what do I know?

Of course there's no lander yet. Bezos (Blue Origin) & Musk (SpaceX) are idiots. Are there no contractors other than the ones who bribe Fat Don?

You-Know-What Your You-Know-Who

Phony Tee Vee War Renewed

"Clash of civilizations" my sweet ass. Buncha grade-school sissies throwing rocks at each other.Men would put boots on the ground, throw punches & kick. How long have we been attacking Iran from the air? Off & on since 1987.

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

"ONLY CASH & Z"

Big Rock In The Sky

Further Proof Of The Existence Of A Kind & Loving Gawd

Got up at noon, felt like vomiting, had dry heaves & bile. Felt like crap, went back to sleep at 1400 & slept unil 1800. Jesus certainly 💘 me, does't he?

Now, some pictures of clouds & birds.
If there were a just gawd, birds would have pecked out your eyes that refuse to see & ripped your lying tongues from your ugly mouths long, long ago.

Impasse Hiatus Momentary Pause

Came to the realization that short bits of sectional track are not conducive to electricity or good running,
& I'll have to give flex-track another shot. Might neeed a slighty better voltmeter, too.

Decided to try TrainWorld again, so was awake before 1600ET, when they close, & spoke to a nice enough woman who set up a new acc't. for me & e-mailed the link to their form as we were on the 'phone. But it looks as if the pkg. won't be shipped until Tues., due to the holiday.

In other consumption news, I finally got an undamaged USN boxcar from Yankee Dabbler. Only took a couple of months.
Looks nice & rolls well. Certainly worth the US$34.99. Not worth the aggravation!
And the pirates at DoorStepInk have promised me a refund. Not there yet, & "It may take up to 10 days for this refund to appear in your account." Didn't take any 10 fucking days for the money to be taken from my acc't.! (Forget quite when I started this, but the refund did show on 5 July. Thanks again, clowns!)

I have been making good use of my time by getting the two areas that go nowhere fine-tuned again, & decided that amusing as it was to have the stock pen so close to the Yard Cafe & depot, it could be moved.
And the transload facility works better on the other spur as well. Win-win.
Then I realized that as soon as I have the new track laid everything will need fine-tuning again. And once I've bought turn-outs to replace some I bought when I didn't know what I was doing, or would eventually do, another round (theoretically the last🤞🏻) of alteration & adjustment. Gah!

Not to do anything the upper classes would, like set a goal, but having had this for four months less than seven yrs. now, it would be nice to have fully electrified, runnable track & even have glued a structure or two together & slapped it on the layout before Nov. I've had seven building kits, trees, plants, 'phone poles & other details in layout limbo for yrs. Pprobably beat inflation & Fat Boy's tariffs by buying early. Speaking of, even laying track like a dirty 19th-century Irishman beats the hell out of current events. An hr. passes like nothing.